I've been required to show ID a few times recently whilst buying alcohol at Sainsburys. Not a problem for me as I have my photo card drivers license in my wallet all the time, but it was a problem for my girlfriend doesn't drive.
I don't need an ID card. I don't want an ID card. I certainly don't want to pay to have one.
By the way, I'm 26 and last time I checked the minimum age for buying booze was 18.
The next most common need I've heard cited (but am not affected by myself) is the ubiquity of DVD players in car entertainment centers, meeting rooms, etc.
I've not taken any interest in Blu-Ray, but is it more than just a quality boost?
With the resolution you'd get on an in-car system I wouldn't have thought there would be a lot of drive to do that apart from cost, as you said, but I wouldn't have thought that would drop any time soon. Would there really be a point from a consumers point of view?
Download caps, speed limits, a flat out limit on the number of files you can download. It wouldn't be the first time an ISP has promised something that's not quite the truth.
Travelling for me would mean in a taxi, bus, train, airplane, or walking. Train and airplane are the most likely long duration methods, and power sockets are increasingly common on them both (Air Canada 777s have sockets in cattle class for example)
My phone holds a charge for around a week if it's not really used, and around two to three days if it's heavily used. If I'm on any one of those methods of transport for more than two days then my phone will be the least of my worries.
If it's really vital to hold a charge then I'll turn it off, but then I can live quite happily without my phone anyway.
On the desk next to me at work, on a cheast of drawers or table at home. I generally only have mine in my pocket if I'm travelling somewhere. If I'm in the car then it gets thrown onto the dash.
Personally it's not a big drama for me to plug it in when it needs charging, it's a Nokia and as they all (at least used to) use the same charger so they're not hard to find.
So please, show me an LED lamp with the same colour temperature as a filament bulb which difuses the light in a simalar pattern and costs about the same as a CFL.
I used to walk around barefoot a lot when I was younger, just around the house and garden. The skin on the bottom of my feet got so tough that I accidentally walked on broken glass a few times and it just felt like a stone. It didn't go anywhere near causing pain, let alone puncturing the skin.
I'd imagine if you regularly run barefoot then you'd have pretty tough skin after a while.
I was merely pointing out that they don't even work on the most basic level as it is, and because of that are totally useless. I've never ever seen anything telling me what a national ID card looks like, so why would they expect anyone to believe one?
If they had a reader then, yes, they would trust it because 'the machine said so'. They would also have been trained to use the reader, and would know what the cards should look like.
Please note, I don't think they're a good idea and certainly don't want one! My drivers licence has always worked for me, and everyone else I know without a drivers license uses their passport/student ID/prettymuch anything if they need to.
It's actually worse than that, because they are so rare no one really knows what they look like!
On two seperate occaisions I've seen someone trying to use national ID cards as proof of age when buying alcohol. Both times they were refused because the staff didn't recognise the card.
The whole thing is a total waste of time and (our) money, all with the goal of filling a void that does not exist!
I always close all my other browser windows when I'm using online banking, and start with a fresh Firefox session (set up to clear everything on shutdown). I thought I was just being paranoid, turns out not so much!
The best security I've seen my bank use is an external hash thing that looks like a small calculator. You have to stick your card in, enter your pin, enter a bunch of numbers and you get a code back to enter into the site when you transfer money. Surely that kind of security would render this sort of scam pointless?
OK, I didn't RTFA and didn't know that the blacklist wasn't government run. Yet. I have no problem believing that the government don't freakin love it, and will probably soon make it goverment run/a legal requirement.
Stand up for your rights people! Don't let them get away with enslaving you!
I agree, what is happening to the UK government is very scary, as I've heard many people say, but I've never heard anyone suggest how to stand up for our rights/privacy!
Voteing doesn't work - they're all as corrupt as each other.
People are dreaming if they think the no.10 patition website does anything.
Most of the population doesn't even realise that this is happening, or don't believe it anyway.
I honestly belive that politicians don't have a bloody clue, don't act in anyone's interest except their own, and don't listen when anyone with a clue tells them they are wrong.
So if you get a raise and then start living beyond your means then it's the governments fault?
Yeh, right.
What happened to being responsible and only spending what you can afford?
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...or microwave it! ;o)
I'm with you there, ther only trouble is that manufacturers don't like it because they sell less when their product doesn't break.
I've been required to show ID a few times recently whilst buying alcohol at Sainsburys. Not a problem for me as I have my photo card drivers license in my wallet all the time, but it was a problem for my girlfriend doesn't drive.
I don't need an ID card. I don't want an ID card. I certainly don't want to pay to have one.
By the way, I'm 26 and last time I checked the minimum age for buying booze was 18.
It's like rain on your wedding day.
The next most common need I've heard cited (but am not affected by myself) is the ubiquity of DVD players in car entertainment centers, meeting rooms, etc.
I've not taken any interest in Blu-Ray, but is it more than just a quality boost?
With the resolution you'd get on an in-car system I wouldn't have thought there would be a lot of drive to do that apart from cost, as you said, but I wouldn't have thought that would drop any time soon. Would there really be a point from a consumers point of view?
I hope they remember to put a grill over the exhaust ducting...
Download caps, speed limits, a flat out limit on the number of files you can download. It wouldn't be the first time an ISP has promised something that's not quite the truth.
Travelling for me would mean in a taxi, bus, train, airplane, or walking. Train and airplane are the most likely long duration methods, and power sockets are increasingly common on them both (Air Canada 777s have sockets in cattle class for example)
My phone holds a charge for around a week if it's not really used, and around two to three days if it's heavily used. If I'm on any one of those methods of transport for more than two days then my phone will be the least of my worries.
If it's really vital to hold a charge then I'll turn it off, but then I can live quite happily without my phone anyway.
On the desk next to me at work, on a cheast of drawers or table at home. I generally only have mine in my pocket if I'm travelling somewhere. If I'm in the car then it gets thrown onto the dash.
Personally it's not a big drama for me to plug it in when it needs charging, it's a Nokia and as they all (at least used to) use the same charger so they're not hard to find.
So please, show me an LED lamp with the same colour temperature as a filament bulb which difuses the light in a simalar pattern and costs about the same as a CFL.
Really, I will happily get them if they exist.
I used to walk around barefoot a lot when I was younger, just around the house and garden. The skin on the bottom of my feet got so tough that I accidentally walked on broken glass a few times and it just felt like a stone. It didn't go anywhere near causing pain, let alone puncturing the skin.
I'd imagine if you regularly run barefoot then you'd have pretty tough skin after a while.
I was merely pointing out that they don't even work on the most basic level as it is, and because of that are totally useless. I've never ever seen anything telling me what a national ID card looks like, so why would they expect anyone to believe one?
If they had a reader then, yes, they would trust it because 'the machine said so'. They would also have been trained to use the reader, and would know what the cards should look like.
Please note, I don't think they're a good idea and certainly don't want one! My drivers licence has always worked for me, and everyone else I know without a drivers license uses their passport/student ID/prettymuch anything if they need to.
It's actually worse than that, because they are so rare no one really knows what they look like!
On two seperate occaisions I've seen someone trying to use national ID cards as proof of age when buying alcohol. Both times they were refused because the staff didn't recognise the card.
The whole thing is a total waste of time and (our) money, all with the goal of filling a void that does not exist!
I know that's a joke, but he was thinking of his children. An his childrens children, etc.
Just don't invite the feds round for coffee...
They have cups specially designed for reading platter-mats!!!
I always close all my other browser windows when I'm using online banking, and start with a fresh Firefox session (set up to clear everything on shutdown). I thought I was just being paranoid, turns out not so much!
The best security I've seen my bank use is an external hash thing that looks like a small calculator. You have to stick your card in, enter your pin, enter a bunch of numbers and you get a code back to enter into the site when you transfer money. Surely that kind of security would render this sort of scam pointless?
Knee-jerk idiocy?
OK, I didn't RTFA and didn't know that the blacklist wasn't government run. Yet. I have no problem believing that the government don't freakin love it, and will probably soon make it goverment run/a legal requirement.
Anyway, what I personally find more scary is biometric ID cards (homeoffice.gov), biometric passports (ips.gov.uk), and the latest ISP snooping law (bbc.co.uk) to name a few, all coupled with numerous unpunished breaches in data security (google.com)
All in the name of stopping "the terrorists". It might give you a fuzzy warm feeling, after all, you have nothing to hide, right?
Stand up for your rights people! Don't let them get away with enslaving you!
I agree, what is happening to the UK government is very scary, as I've heard many people say, but I've never heard anyone suggest how to stand up for our rights/privacy!
Voteing doesn't work - they're all as corrupt as each other.
People are dreaming if they think the no.10 patition website does anything.
Most of the population doesn't even realise that this is happening, or don't believe it anyway.
I honestly belive that politicians don't have a bloody clue, don't act in anyone's interest except their own, and don't listen when anyone with a clue tells them they are wrong.
What are we supposed to do?
So if you get a raise and then start living beyond your means then it's the governments fault? Yeh, right. What happened to being responsible and only spending what you can afford?